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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2705 - AN ACT
PRESCRIBING THE DUTIES AND QUALIFICATIONS, AND FIXING THE NUMBER AND
SALARIES, OF THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGAL STAFF IN THE OFFICE OF THE
SECRETARY OF JUSTICE |
Section 1. In the
performance of his duties as Attorney General of the Philippines and as
ex officio legal adviser of government-owned and controlled
corporations or enterprises, the Secretary of Justice shall be assisted
by a legal staff which shall have one chief to be known as Department
Legal Counsel whose salary shall be eight thousand four hundred pesos
per annum, and two assistant chiefs each of whom shall receive a salary
of seven thousand eight hundred pesos per annum, four senior special
attorneys, each of whom shall receive a salary of seven thousand two
hundred pesos per annum, and sixteen special attorneys whose salaries
shall be as follows: (a) Four special attorney at six thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; (b) Four special attorneys at six thousand pesos hundred pesos per annum each; (c) Four special attorneys at five thousand four hundred pesos per annum each; (d) Four special attorneys at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum each. The qualifications for appointment to the position of chief of the legal staff and those of assistant chiefs shall be the same as those prescribed for assistant solicitors general, and those of senior special attorneys and special attorneys shall be the same as those prescribed for solicitors in the Office of the Solicitor General. Sec. 2. In addition to his regular duties, any member of the legal staff, except those mentioned in paragraphs (c) and (d) of Section one, may, with the prior approval of the Secretary of Justice, be called upon to perform the functions devolving upon a solicitor whenever the Solicitor General shall so request, and may also be designated by the Secretary of Justice as acting judge or any municipal court in case of absence, sickness, or incapacity of the judge thereof, or in case of any vacancy in the office of municipal judge, but he shall not receive any additional compensation during the time he is acting as solicitor or municipal judge. Sec. 3. Provisions of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, the members of the legal staff shall receive the salary rates provided for in this Act: Provided, That no attorney already holding office as such in the Law Division of the Department of Justice on the passage of this Act shall, by reason thereof, be removed from office or be demoted to a lower category or scale of salary except for cause and upon compliance with the due process provided for by law. Sec. 4. In addition to such sums as may have been provided in the current Appropriation Act, there is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Henceforth, appropriations to cover salaries of the legal staff as herein provided shall be carried in the annual General Appropriations Act. Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval. Approved:
June 18, 1960 |
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